Wen Xu thanked his aunt, and then refused his aunt's offer to let his cousin accompany him or to accompany her up the mountain. He carried his aunt's hatchet and his aunt's hoe on his back and went up the mountain.
First, she went to the back hill of her home.
This is a piece of private land, not far from home, only about fifteen minutes' walk away.
Camellia trees were planted here at first, but as far back as Wen Xu can remember, this place was just a vegetable field.
Perhaps the original camellia forest had been cut down before she was born.
This was also the reason why her father occasionally felt sad later, because camellia oil was... expensive.
In Wen Xu's memory, this place was a watermelon field, a pepper field, an eggplant field, and a cotton field, but now it is a chestnut forest.
This is because after she took the high school entrance examination, her parents went to work in the city for longer periods of time.
She didn't have much energy to manage her family's fields, so most of her family's land was turned into a chestnut forest, and some of the farther, higher, and more remote areas were planted with fir trees.
She quickly started pruning the chestnut forest. She wanted to chop off the branches that were too tall and take off their top edges so that the chestnut trees wouldn't grow too tall.
Thanks to Wen Xu, his physical condition has improved now.
In one afternoon, the entire forest had been pruned.
Huh?
Why did a camellia tree grow in her family's private plot?
Chop, chop, chop, chop some branches and take cuttings.
ah!
Nine Festival Tea!
Dig dig dig!
Yoho~
What is this? It’s honeysuckle.
Dig dig dig.
Wow.
What is this?
"Ah, Xuxu, split the mountain."
"Yes, yes, uncle, where are you going?"
"Go to the fields to catch ducks." The uncle who was wearing a bamboo hat took off his bamboo hat and used it as a fan to fan himself. "That's right. You are much better than your dad. Your dad can't build such a big forest in a long time."
Wen Xu was praised and his face turned red.
In a daze, she turned back into her inarticulate self when she was a child.
Shut up and get complimented.
The uncle finally left, and Wen Xu breathed a sigh of relief.
Start digging again in your own private plot, digging and digging.
This is why she came to split the mountain.
In fact, what she wanted when she came to this land was some chestnut branches.
Of course she could chop up whatever she wanted and take it away, but that would be weird. She could also move the whole tree away, but that would also be weird.
Simply, she chopped down the entire forest and took it upon herself to manage the chestnut forest.
In the evening, I had a video call with my family.
Xu Xu's father had an old face and said, "Xuxu, you really don't care about your father's life or death at all."
"???"
Wen Xu asked strangely: "Where are the words?"
"You, you, you, you!" Xu Xu's father said sadly: "Xu Xu, your father's reputation will be ruined by you. Don't touch the rest. I'll chop it up."
Today he received a call from his uncle in the same village.
Both inside and outside the words, they were praising him for giving birth to a daughter who was very good at farm work, and then criticizing Xu Xu's father, how could he let his child split the mountain by himself?
Xu Xu's mother looked at Wen Xu with distress, "Xuxu, why didn't you say that you went home to chop the mountains? If you did, were you tired? Listen to your dad and don't chop the rest.
Yes, we will come back tomorrow to chop."
"It's been chopped."
Wen Xu said in the video: "I'll be back tomorrow if I go down, you don't have to come."
As for Xu Xu’s father’s reputation…
Wen Xu looked at her father sheepishly and said, "Dad, I didn't think much about it, it was just a casual matter."
"you you you you you!"
Xu Xu's father almost cried in anger. Wen Xu quickly comforted him: "Dad, I have found your beard knife and I will definitely bring it to you tomorrow."
"..."
Xu Xu's mother didn't care about Xu Xu's father, who was speechless and choked. She was more concerned about where Wen Xu would stay tonight.
"Xuxu, where will you sleep tonight?"
Xuxu's mother thought that the house in her hometown had not been inhabited for a long time. The quilt was all over it now and it must have a musty smell.
Xu Xu's mother looked at Wen Xu worriedly and said, "Xuxu, you won't be sleeping in the car tonight."
"That's not possible." Wen Xu said, "I'm staying at Aunt Fengqin's house."
At night, after turning off the lights, Wen Xu starts to get busy.
She entered the space, planted what she dug in the afternoon, and what the enthusiastic fellow villagers gave her, and planted it into the space.
Before planting, soak them in the Space Spirit Spring. Visible to the naked eye, these branches have grown roots.
Wen Xu took the hoe in the space and started planting trees on the hillside she had planned before.
I have been busy for a long time. If I go back to reality and rest, I will definitely not have enough time.
In addition, she occasionally recognized the bed, so she just rested in the space. After having enough rest, she boiled water in the space to take a bath, and then returned to reality.
The next day, she had to do the same thing as yesterday.
The only difference is that the place she is going to is different. Today she is going to a mountain farther away.
When she was a child, the road to the Moso Bamboo Forest was a small road, a small mountain road that could only be walked by one person.
Now, the mountain roads are dug by excavators and can be driven by tractors.
The road became wider, and as I walked along, my heart became brighter.
When she walked down this road as a child, she always felt a little nervous.
Because there are many old graves on this road.
Now that he has grown up, Wen Xu still unconsciously walks faster when passing by this area.
However, she laughed again because of her behavior.
There is nothing to be afraid of.
During the Qingming Festival, there were several graves that she had to visit.
Just bless her.
Soon, Wen Xu came to his moso bamboo forest.
Her moso bamboo forest is not managed and looks much more scrawled than the forest next door.
But scrawling also has its benefits.
Wen Xu started her digging activities again.
There are many wild fruit vines in her moso bamboo forest.
This was a rare delicacy when I was a kid.
Around July 15th, the wild grapes on the mountain will ripen into small bunches, less than the size of a palm.
When ripe, it is red.
But they often pull the wild grapes down when they are still green.
Each one is small and looks like a small pearl.
There are also wild kiwis, which split in August, often before they are fully ripe, and have already entered their pockets.
If Wen Xu had gone too far when she was a child, now, she has gone even further.
When she was a child, she gathered wild fruits, but now, she just takes them away by the roots.
After collecting enough moso bamboo whips and splitting some fir and pine wood, Wen Xu did not stay on the mountain longer.
When Wen Xu returned to Ding City, it was already close to six o'clock in the evening.
As soon as she entered the door, she saw her father's sulky face.
"..." Wen Xu looked at her father tentatively, "No, I'll glue the branch back, dad, you go chop it?"
"???"
What nonsense are you talking about?
Xu Xu's father turned around and entered the kitchen, "Eat."